Health Care News

RFID Journal covers RFID health care technologies and applications that allow hospitals to track assets, monitor patients, automate payments and increase profitability.

Idaho School Installs RTLS to Make Students Safer

Employees at Skyview High School wear Ekahau Wi-Fi badges that can be used to call for help in the event of a security threat or medical emergency, and also trigger a lockdown.

Tags: Health Care, Security

• Odette Cancer Centre Boosts Throughput Via RFID
• Hospitals in Japan, China Seek to Save Lives Via Pocketsize Reader
• At IEEE RFID Conference, Passive Tags Talk With Each Other, Contact Lenses Help Control Diabetes
• Gentag and AHC Debut NFC RFID Solution for North American Home Health Aides
• Boeing, Hanmi Pharmaceutical, Impinj Among Winners of 2013 RFID Journal Awards
• Summerville Medical Center Boosts Hand-Hygiene Compliance
• Joint Health Clinic Aims to Boost Efficiency, Satisfaction Via RTLS
• IntelligentM Wristband Monitors Hand Hygiene, Vibrates to Provide Staff Alerts
• Michigan's Memorial Healthcare Adopts Ekahau Wi-Fi Tags

Health Care Case Studies

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute Manages Outpatients Via RFID

The South Delhi, India, medical facility deployed a real-time location system to reduce wait times for testing.

Tags: Health Care, Asset Tracking, Operations

• Global Logistics Company Monitors Shipments' Temperatures
• Finnish Hospital Deploys RFID in Three Phases
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Is "RFID-Ready"
• RFID Makes Radiation Therapy Safer

Health Care Features

RFID Journal LIVE! 2013 Report, Part 1

AT RFID Journal's 11th annual conference and exhibition, attendees learned how to use RFID technologies to track and manage a wide variety of assets. View the presentations from the event's keynotes, general sessions, preconference seminars and post-conference workshops.

Tags: Defense, Aerospace, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Apparel, Supply Chain, Innovation, Inventory / Warehouse Management, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—UK Report
• RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—Scandinavia Report
• Europe Is Rolling Out RFID
• RFID in Health Care 2012 Report

Health Care Editor's Notes

Can Anyone in the Obama Administration Spell 'RFID'?

The president called for Congress to authorize $1 billion for ill-defined support for manufacturing, while ignoring the RFID revolution in its backyard.

Tags: Defense, Health Care, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Watch What You Eat
• Predictions for RFID in 2013
• Connecting End Users and RFID Providers
• What Could Be in Health Care

Health Care Expert Views

Wearable RFID Tags

Antennas must be lightweight, low-cost and powerful enough to support sensors in health-care applications.

Tags: Health Care, Asset Tracking, Sensors

• Next-Generation EPCIS
• A New Approach to Pharmaceutical E-Pedigrees
• Toward a Zero-Injury Workplace
• Securing Small Shipments

Health Care Best Practices

Best Practices: RFID Change Management

Six steps can ensure a smooth transition as you deploy or expand a radio frequency identification system.

Tags: Health Care, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, IT/Infrastructure, RFID Channel

• 6 Ways to Get Your RFID Project Approved

Health Care How To Articles

How to Deploy a Health-Care Real-Time Location System

Strategic advice from four hospitals that are tagging and tracking assets—and achieving a return on their investment—can help you plan a successful solution.

Tags: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• How to Select a Real-Time Locating System
• How to Evaluate Competing Tag Technologies
• How to Select the Right RFID Tag
• How to Choose Between Fixed and Mobile Interrogators

Health Care Videos

• Health Care/Pharma: How RFID Helps St. Joseph's Hospital Optimize Inventory Management in an Acute-Care Setting
  Saint Joseph's Hospital, a 410-bed facility located in Atlanta, Ga., uses RFID technology and a Web-based information system to optimize its management of high-cost medical devices valued at $2 millio...
  Tags: Health Care, LIVE 2013 Track
• Health Care/Pharma: Celebration Health Improves Efficiency with RTLS
  Celebration Health, a Florida Hospital facility, is employing a real-time location system (RTLS) to measure the operational efficiency of its new patient tower, which opened in mid-August 2011. At the...
  Tags: Health Care, LIVE 2013 Track, RTLS

Health Care White Papers

• Healthcare and the Impact of the Internet of Things
  Published January 2013
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly evolving to encompass more than just inanimate objects. Health care is a prime area in which process automation can bring great benefits. While automation is key, it is not the only parameter that defines the IoT, and this paper, by Steve Halliday and Clive Hohberger of the AIM Internet of Things committee, highlights some of the actions currently being undertaken as the IoT develops. (5 pages)
  Tags: Health Care
• How FRAM RFID from Fujitsu Improves the Medical Sterilization Process
  Published July 2012
  Hospitals and medical facilities must track the use, sterilization, storage and disposal of medical devices and supplies. Fujitsu's Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM), combined with radio frequency identification, is simplifying the task of assuring that these vital products remain clean and uncontaminated. RFID offers a quick and efficient digital means of monitoring supplies and maintaining inventory records, but most RFID technologies lack the durability and reliability necessary within a medical environment; for example, the gamma-radiation sterilization method would destroy standard tags. This technical paper introduces the company's FRAM RFID technology, which combines RFID's high-performance, high-capacity tracking ability with radiation hardiness, enabling it to withstand sterilization. (6 pages)
  Tags: Health Care